Here she is on the drive home.
Wasn't thrilled with the name so I scrapped that off. Haven't renamed her yet.
Been fixing it up at home and have gone out only 3 times so far as the weather hasn't been great. Launch out of Brookings:
The 2nd trip out was late October and wild. Weather buoy reported 8ft seas and 25 knot winds. Fortunately as you can see in the pic there's a bit of a cove that provides shelter from the north winds so it was very calm just over the bar and I could practice sailing out into the heavy stuff and turning back when it got too rough. Which it did lol.
Boat has the factory 100% jib and a reticently replaced main. I had both up and a single reef as the wind was very calm in the cove. Should have put in the 2nd reef, will defiantly do that next time it's windy. The boat sailed best hard on the wind as I could pinch to depower. Running was a sketchy broachfest. It was an exciting day for sure and showed that I've got work to do.
The boat only came with these 2 sails. I'm thinking I at least need a storm jib, and maybe a heavy-weather working jib as well? Any recommendations on what to get and where to get them from?
The main has 2 reef points. Is it worth adding a 3rd? What else am I missing?
I did rig a jib downhaul line. Going to the bow is sketchy with no handholds between the mast and forestay! Defiantly going to install jacklines.
